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John Esten Cooke, Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes, and Adventures of War., Mosby's raid into Fairfax. (search)
luable quartermaster, commissary, and sutler's stores in the place, but these were found to be in the houses, which it would have been necessary to burn; and even had the proceeding been advisable, time was wanting. The band was encumbered by three times as many horses and prisoners as it numered men, and day was approaching. The captain accordingly made his dispositions rapidly for retiring. The prisoners, thirty-five in number, were as follows: Brig.-Gen. E. H. Stoughton. Baron R. Wordener, an Austrian, and Aide-de-camp to Col. Wyndham. Capt. A. Barker, 5th New York Cavalry. Col. Wyndham's A. A. General. Thirty prisoners, chiefly of the 18th Pennsylvania and Ist Ohio Cavalry, and the telegraph operator at the place. These were placed upon the captured horses, and the band set out in silence on their return. Captain Mosby took the same road which had conducted him into the Court-House: that which led to Fairfax Station. But this was only to deceive t